Vegan Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins. Easy One Bowl Pumpkin Spice muffins with vegan cream cheese filled in them. Warm spices, full of pumpkin, all whole grain Spelt flour. Garnish with pumpkin seeds or chocolate chips. Make with or without cream cheese. Vegan Breakfast Recipe Makes 12 regular size muffins.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time25 minutesmins
Total Time40 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12
Author: Vegan Richa
Ingredients
1 3/4cupsspelt flouror a mix of spelt and all purpose, or 1 3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp all purpose flour
1/2cuppowdered sugarUse 2 tbsp more for sweeter
1/4cupcoconut sugar or brown sugar other sugar of choice
2 1/4tspbaking powder
1/4tspbaking soda
1/4teaspoonsalt
2 to 3tsppumpkin pie spice11/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/4 to 1/3 tsp nutmeg, 1/8 tsp cloves
Wet
1cuppureed pumpkinnot pumpkin pie mix
1/2cupnon dairy milk
1/4cupoil
1tablespoonsmolassesadd 2 tbsp for stronger flavor
1tsplemon juice
For filling
1/2cupcream cheesesoftened (I used tofutti)
1Tablespoon sugar
pumpkin seeds or chopped pecans or vegan mini chocolate chips to top optional
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F / 200ºc. Take the cream cheese from the fridge, Mix the sugar into the cream cheese, mix until smooth.
in a bowl, whisk the dry ingredients until well combined.
Add the rest of the wet ingredients and mix well. it will take a minute or 2 for the pumpkin puree to combine well. There should be no streaks of pumpkin. Add a tbsp more non dairy milk if needed.
Fill the muffin tins to about half.
Add a 1-2 tsp or more cream cheese in the middle and fill the rest to about 3/4 full. * You can add a Tbsp of sugar plus a pinch of cinnamon to the cream cheese before filling if you want it to be sweet.
Even it out. sprinkle pumpkin seeds or pecans or chocolate chips or other topping of choice. I like pecans and a sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar.
Bake at 400 degrees F / 200ºc for 15 minutes, reduce temperature to 350 and continue to bake for 6 to 7 minutes. or until a toothpick test comes out clean.
Cool for a few minutes before removing from the muffin pan. then cool completely on a cooling rack before storing. Store on the counter if consuming within a few hours. Refrigerate for upto a 4 days.
Notes
You can make these with unbleached white flour/ap flour as well. For variation: add cranberries or chocolate chips to the batter. To make without the filling, fill the muffin cups to about 3/4 and bake.Nutritional values based on one serving